7. About CIFF 7
Nutrition Health
Climate
change
Early
learning
Deworming
We work with a wide range of partners seeking to transform the
lives of poor and vulnerable children in developing countries.
8. About CIFF 8
The right nutrition at
the right time
unlocks the potential
of every child.
9. Nutrition Objective 9
Support the transformation of how
maternal and child undernutrition
is prioritised, planned, resourced
and delivered globally to reach the
2020 Nutrition for Growth & 2025
World Health Assembly targets
12. Our work on nutrition 12
Nigeria community based management
of acute malnutrition
India’s first government-led programme
for the treatment of acutely
malnourished children
15. Nutrition Advocacy Objectives 15
• Shaking up the nutrition narrative
• Increasing resources to nutrition
• Increasing accountability for delivery
• Building leadership on nutrition
17. Rio and Beyond 17
• ‘Partnering for Nutrition’, Aug 4 2015
• More multilateral, UN-linked process
• Less private sector
• Accountability – Rome agencies, N4G, SUN
• CIFF is finalising their commitment, strategy
refresh
• Tokyo 2020: what do we want? how can we
make the nutrition community fit for purpose?
Editor's Notes
We are an independent philanthropic organisation, headquartered in London with offices in Nairobi and New Delhi.
Catalytic change for children
Supporting bold ideas, returns on smart investments in children’s early development are very high
Activist investment principles – funder and influencer to deliver urgent and lasting change at scale.
We work on principles of smart philanthropy
Share information and learning, global knowledge bank to speed transformation change
We emphasis data to measure impact – many of our grants are independently evaluated
We work with partners, seeking to become more transparent, working across geographies
Our board has developed an investment strategy for the endowment – diverse portfolio of financial investments with a long-term horizon, invest responsibly (restricting tobacco, BMS companies, fossil fuel extraction)
Children are too important to save one at a time – so we invest with partners where evidence suggests the greatest potential for impact at scale
We look for returns for children, applying rigorous business-like approach to philanthropic funding.
Areas of work include children and mothers’ health and nutrition, children’seducation, deworming and welfare, and smart ways to slow down and stop climate change.
Last year we disbursed $220 million to our partners.
Investing in children’s nutrition has the power to trigger big social and economic changes. Children with well-developed brains and bodies have better life chances: they live longer and healthier lives, they do better in school, and they grow into more productive adults.
We believe that tackling undernutrition is urgent, feasible and affordable, and we are seeing progress. In 2015, six million fewer children were chronically undernourished than the year before. That’s a big achievement.
In Nigeria, a community-based approach led by the government is reaching large numbers of caregivers and young children.
Partnered in 2009
This year we launched a programme in Rajasthan